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Information dissemination is a fundamental problem in parallel and distributed computing. In its simplest variant, the broadcasting problem, a message has to be spread among all nodes of a graph. A prominent communication protocol for this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-12-10 Robert Elsässer , Dominik Kaaser

GossipSub is a popular new peer-to-peer network protocol designed to disseminate messages quickly and efficiently by allowing peers to forward the full content of messages only to a dynamically selected subset of their neighboring peers…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Ankit Kumar , Max von Hippel , Panagiotis Manolios , Cristina Nita-Rotaru

As decentralized AI and edge intelligence become increasingly prevalent, ensuring robustness and trustworthiness in such distributed settings has become a critical issue-especially in the presence of corrupted or adversarial data.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-12 Anna Van Elst , Igor Colin , Stephan Clémençon

Federated learning has emerged as a privacy-preserving technique for collaborative model training across heterogeneously distributed silos. Yet, its reliance on a single central server introduces potential bottlenecks and risks of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Huong Nguyen , Hong-Tri Nguyen , Praveen Kumar Donta , Susanna Pirttikangas , Lauri Lovén

We study gossip algorithms for the fundamental rumor spreading problem, where the goal is to disseminate a rumor from a given source node to all nodes in an arbitrary (and unknown) graph. Gossip algorithms allow each node to call only one…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Fabien Dufoulon , William K. Moses , Gopal Pandurangan

We consider two variants of the classical gossip algorithm. The first variant is a version of asynchronous stochastic approximation. We highlight a fundamental difficulty associated with the classical asynchronous gossip scheme, viz., that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Vivek S. Borkar , Rahul Makhijani , Rajesh Sundaresan

We consider a system consisting of a large network of $n$ users and a library of files, wherein inter-user communication is established based upon gossip mechanisms. Each file is initially present at exactly one node, which is designated as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Priyanka Kaswan , Sennur Ulukus

A source node updates its status as a point process and also forwards its updates to a network of observer nodes. Within the network of observers, these updates are forwarded as point processes from node to node. Each node wishes its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Roy D. Yates

Mean field approximation is a popular method to study the behaviour of stochastic models composed of a large number of interacting objects. When the objects are asynchronous, the mean field approximation of a population model can be…

Performance · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Nicolas Gast , Diego Latella , Mieke Massink

This paper focuses on non-asymptotic diffusion time in asynchronous gossip protocols. Asynchronous gossip protocols are designed to perform distributed computation in a network of nodes by randomly exchanging messages on the associated…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-22 David Picard , Jérôme Fellus , Stéphane Garnier

Gossip algorithms are widely used in modern distributed systems, with applications ranging from sensor networks and peer-to-peer networks to mobile vehicle networks and social networks. A tremendous research effort has been devoted to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Guodong Shi , Bo Li , Mikael Johansson , Karl Henrik Johansson

Distributed averaging is among the most relevant cooperative control problems, with applications in sensor and robotic networks, distributed signal processing, data fusion, and load balancing. Consensus and gossip algorithms have been…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-06 Christel Sirocchi , Alessandro Bogliolo

The primary objective of this research work is to study and investigate the performance measures of Gossip Routing protocol and Energy Efficient and Reliable Adaptive Gossip routing protocols. We use TCP and CBR based traffic models to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-06-08 S. Rajeswari , Y. Venkataramani

Distributed dynamic gossip is a generalization of the classic telephone problem in which agents communicate to share secrets, with the additional twist that also telephone numbers are exchanged to determine who can call whom. Recent work…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Hans van Ditmarsch , Malvin Gattinger , Louwe B. Kuijer , Pere Pardo

In this paper, we present an experimental analysis of the asynchronous push & pull rumour spreading protocol. This protocol is, to date, the best-performing rumour spreading protocol for simple, scalable, and robust information…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-01-16 Christos Patsonakis , Mema Roussopoulos

In this work we present a randomized gossip algorithm for solving the average consensus problem while at the same time protecting the information about the initial private values stored at the nodes. We give iteration complexity bounds for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Filip Hanzely , Jakub Konečný , Nicolas Loizou , Peter Richtárik , Dmitry Grishchenko

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) generate massive amount of live data and events sensed through dispersedly deployed tiny sensors. This generated data needed to be disseminate to the sink with slight consumption of network resources. One of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-08-05 Nomica Imran , Salman Khan , Imran Rao

Gossip algorithms have recently received significant attention, mainly because they constitute simple and robust message-passing schemes for distributed information processing over networks. However for many topologies that are realistic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-02-20 F. Benezit , A. G. Dimakis , P. Thiran , M. Vetterli

Large language models have advanced rapidly, but no single model excels in every area -- each has its strengths and weaknesses. Instead of relying on one model alone, we take inspiration from gossip protocols in distributed systems, where…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Saksham Arora

We study distributed methods for online prediction and stochastic optimization. Our approach is iterative: in each round nodes first perform local computations and then communicate in order to aggregate information and synchronize their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-06 Konstantinos I. Tsianos , Michael G. Rabbat